Setup.rb and shared data

Ruby
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Hi

I’m using rake+setup.rb to create a gem. It has a data-dir which is
supposed to go into the shared data directory. My issue now is: how do I
know in the executable where that data-dir went?
Similar thing for the conf directory.

Regards
Stefan

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Stefan R. wrote:

Hi

I’m using rake+setup.rb to create a gem. It has a data-dir which is
supposed to go into the shared data directory. My issue now is: how do I
know in the executable where that data-dir went?
Similar thing for the conf directory.

Regards
Stefan

Thanks to cout in irc.freenode.org/#ruby-lang I solved my problem. In
case somebody googles this thread due to the same problem, here’s the
solution:
require ‘rbconfig’
data_dir = Config::CONFIG[‘datadir’]

Regards
Stefan

3

Hi,

At Sat, 1 Sep 2007 23:22:48 +0900,
Stefan R. wrote in [ruby-talk:267082]:

I’m using rake+setup.rb to create a gem. It has a data-dir which is
supposed to go into the shared data directory. My issue now is: how do I
know in the executable where that data-dir went?
Similar thing for the conf directory.

Thanks to cout in irc.freenode.org/#ruby-lang I solved my problem. In
case somebody googles this thread due to the same problem, here’s the
solution:
require ‘rbconfig’
data_dir = Config::CONFIG[‘datadir’]

If you want put architecture dependent files, they shouldn’t go
the shared data directory, use ‘libexecdir’ instead.